Lubuntu Download and Install Tutorial

LXDE is leight but eye-candy desktop environment mainly used by Linux disributions. Ubuntu supports as a sub distribution for long time named Lubuntu . In this tutorial we will look how to install Lubuntu.

About Lubuntu

Lubuntu is fast and lightweight operation system based Ubuntu. It uses minimal desktop environment named Lxde with selection of light applications. Other main motivation of Lubuntu is less energy usage. This will make Lubuntu useful for Laptops.

Download ISO Image

Lubuntu image can be download from lubuntu.net . Lubuntu is provided as two version 32 bit or 64 bit. I will use 64 bit Lubuntu in this tutorial. The size of both versions are similar and 64 bit version is 912 MB.

32 Bit

64 Bit

Mount or Burn

Before starting installation we need to decide where we will install Lubuntu. If we will install into a virtual machine we should mount it to vm . If we will install into physical hardware like laptop, netbook or pc we should burn it into a CD or Usb. In this example I will install into a vm

Installation

We will look Lubuntu installation step by step. We will use Lubuntu 17.04 which is most recent version at the time of writing this tutorial.

Language Selection

We will select installation language

Language Selection

Start Installation

We have different options like

Try Ubuntu where Lubuntu will not installed and run as live system but changes will do not save

Install Ubuntu where we will install ubuntu

Chech disk for defects will made a disk check against disk hard or soft errors